Thin film dewetting dynamics refer to the processes by which continuous thin layers of material destabilise and retract to form isolated droplets or patterned structures. This phenomenon, governed by ...

Video phase field simulation. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 10 Nov. 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Naffouti at Université de Toulon in ...

(Nanowerk News) A research team led by Prof. LI Yue from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has introduced a self-confined solid-state dewetting mechanism.

Transport in nano-pores: Depinning transitions for and ratcheting of driven interacting colloidal particles in heterogeneous nano-pores [63]. Dewetting of polymer mixtures: Coupling of decomposition ...

Optical microscope images of silicon particles (magnification 100X, dark field). These structures are obtained via spontaneous solid-state dewetting of an ultra-thin, flat layer of silicon on silicon ...